MANY of the clubs don't want it - certainly the majority of the fans don't want it, but, it now seems fairly certain we will have a 12-12-18-club league system forced upon us when the Scottish Professional Football League comes into being, with the amalgamation of the SPL and the SFL.
Aye well, as my sainted auld mither used to say in her particularly exasperated tone: "On yer ain heid be it". I see nothing in the new arrangement - other than the re-emergence of a single body running senior league football, and the proposal (by no means certain to be passed) for (finally) a pyramid system in Scottish football - which bodes well for the future.
I fear, through the lack of visionaries and real leaders within Scottish football today, that the downward slip of Scottish football towards a place among the minnows of European football - Luxembourg, San Marino, Malta, Andorra etc - continuing.
Unlike Victor Meldrew, I DO believe it: Private Fraser got it right, we're awe doomed.
CHAPEAUX, by the way, to Charles Green, for the most-honest statement to have emerged from the mouth of a club boss in many a long day. This truly is the worst Rangers team ever - who can argue.
It might not be the best example in recent years of reverse psychology, but, if this Rangers team does suddenly start playing "champagne" football (no tittering in the Jungle there), then Charlie boy's outburst might work. I, however, hae ma doots.
GREAT result yesterday from Scotland's Women's team, in drawing 4-4 with England at the Cyprus Cup. I appreciate, when it comes to coverage of Hope Powell's England squad, there is a fair bit of the London media's "talking up" going on; but, that aside, England's women's side is - for my money - a bit closer to the top level in the women's game, than the over-rated England men's team is in their game.
From this Cyprus result, we might conclude that: our women are better than our men, at least going forward: I can easily see us conceding four goals to England, not so sure if, like our girls, we could score four in return. It was a morale-boosting result for our girls.
BY the way, apologies for, in yesterday's post - getting my McKaill-Smiths mixed up with my McKay-Stevens. Ah, let's face it, Scottish fitba players shouldn't have double-barrelled names, leave that to the Watsonians, Herioters, Fettesians and "Eccies", either Edinburgh or Glasgow, who play rugger.
Not a good day for me to be talking fitba the night. In short, time to get rid of the rot that dictates to the fans what sort of leagues THEY want us to support.
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